{"id":176674,"date":"2020-04-19T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/19\/yes-2\/"},"modified":"2020-04-19T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T23:56:00","slug":"yes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/19\/yes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Sirota asks, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sirota.substack.com\/p\/will-big-pharma-fleece-us-on-a-covid?blogID=6293408133336820692\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Will Big Pharma Fleece Us On A COVID Treatment That We Helped Fund?<\/span><\/b><\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>This has been another episode of simple answers to simple questions.<\/p>\n<p>On a more serious notes, extreme rent seeking is arguably the central tenet of the US economy these days.<\/p>\n<p>If Remdesivir proves to be a good treatment for Covid-19, it will be sold for tens, if not hundreds, of times the cost of manufacture, and most of the development of the drug was paid for by the taxpayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Sirota asks, &#8220;Will Big Pharma Fleece Us On A COVID Treatment That We Helped Fund?&#8220; This has been another episode of simple answers to simple questions. On a more serious notes, extreme rent seeking is arguably the central tenet of the US economy these days. If Remdesivir proves to be a good treatment for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,368,517,428,572,567,460],"class_list":["post-176674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-drugs","tag-ip","tag-pandemic","tag-pharma","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}